In-person meetings of any size are costly and require a lot
of advance planning. Teleconferences are
cost-effective, but they do not lend themselves to efficient interaction of
large groups. Virtual meetings based on
instant messaging are also cost-effective, and they can accommodate thousands
of guests, but the speakers can easily be overwhelmed by questions and comments
from the audience.
The solution? Instant
Moderated Chat for IBM Lotus Sametime.
Structured, real-time communications with large groups of
people
Instant Moderated Chat provides efficient,
centrally-controlled real-time communication between presenters and their
audiences in virtual meetings and conferences.
Instant Moderated Chat's intuitive console enables a live
moderator to receive, filter, and then select which questions are passed to
which speaker. The moderator can deny
inappropriate questions and block certain guests and thereby retain strict
control of the meeting's direction.
- Scaleable to thousands of guests
- Meetings can be recorded
- Easy to deploy and to use
- Manages video and presentation materials
- Guests can join via a Web client (Firefox, IE, etc) or via a
plug-in in a Sametime Connect client
- Guests can be given the option to join anonymously
- Supports multi-language meetings
- Very cost-effective
Instant Moderated Chat is an application based on IBM Lotus
Sametime that assigns different roles—guest and speaker—to the participants in
virtual meetings.
Role-based attendance allows a moderator to manage
interaction between those who ask questions (guests) and those who answer them
(speakers).
With centralized control
over who can ask questions and which questions are passed forward for answers,
virtual meetings become the perfect medium for efficient, cost-effective, and
large-scale corporate communication.
